Chinese families like to get together to eat the mooncakes and watch the moon at the Moon Festival night. There are some small differences due to time zone, but, for the most part, the moon looks the same to all of us as night falls across the globe. The Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival features the beautiful idea that we all see the same moon phase on or around the same date. That timing places the festival in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar, close to the autumnal equinox, every year. The date of the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar. This mooncake is filled with a lotus-seed paste. Chinese mooncake is a traditional food for the Mid-Autumn Festival. It’s also called the Moon cake Festival for a traditional baked delicacy exchanged among family and friends. It’s sometimes called the Moon Festival in honor of the upcoming full moon. Meanwhile, in China, Taiwan, Vietnam and other parts of Asia, the focus is on the annual Mid-Autumn Festival, which by tradition also carries a strong connection to the full moon. and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, this weekend’s autumnal equinox and the coming week’s Harvest Moon are signs that autumn is here. Many Asian friends will be wishing each other a happy Mid-Autumn Festival on September 24, 2018. Sky lanterns at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam, where the festival is called Tet Trung Thu.
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